Beholder tab not showing up in TensorBoard app

[mathnathan]

Since Beholder may not be 'officially' supported until TensorBoard version 0.5 as @jart suggested here, I am requesting help here for now.

I am attempting to use the latest TensorBoard build to access the beholder plugin. I clone TensorBoard and build it...

git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard`
cd tensorboard
bazel build //tensorboard

I access Beholder as follows

FILE_LOC = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) # Ensure use of
sys.path.insert(1,os.path.join(FILE_LOC, '../tensorboard/')) # local TensorBoard

from tensorboard.plugins.beholder.beholder import Beholder
beholder_writer = Beholder(session=sess, logdir=RUN_DIR)

and in my training loop I have

beholder_writer.update()

The code is executed and I see the beholder logs being written to my cpve_logs during training...

ls cpve_logs/plugins/beholder/
config.pkl  frame.summary  section-info.pkl

I execute the local tensorboard app built via bazel

./tensorboard/bazel-bin/tensorboard/tensorboard --logdir=cpve_logs

and I do not see the Beholder tab in the TensorBoard app.

I then attempted to use the TensorBoard version provided by @jart in tb-nightly.

pip install tb-nightly
tensorboard --logdir=cpve_logs

The TensorBoard app resulting from this build also does not yield the Beholder tab.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I access Beholder via TensorBoard?

[chrisranderson]

I don't know what has been happening to Beholder since it was merged - it may not be hooked into TensorBoard's nightly build at all yet. At the beginning, I was just handing the code over without integrating it into TensorBoard. I'm leaving that to the TensorBoard folks.

The only way I know how to use it is via this repository as of right now. Have you tried following the instructions in this repo?

[mathnathan]

I have not. My initial goal was to access beholder in a future conscious way, such that it will be compatible with TensorBoard. It seemed to me that jart released the tb-nightly specifically with this in mind. I will give the instructions in this repo a try. Since the actual issue is not resolved, perhaps we can leave this open and see if someone else, perhaps @jart, has anything to say about it. Thanks for the hasty reply.

Cheers,

[chrisranderson]

Sadly, this repo might not be up to date, I'm not sure. I may have time Friday or Saturday to help you out if things don't work.

[mathnathan]

Thank you for your diligence. I trust I can get it working, but I will report back should there be any further issues. Just wanted to be conscious of the merge with TensorBoard. I will wait until it is officially supported.

[jart]

We'll be getting it working in the main repo over the next few months. It will probably be included in a release in Q1 2018, although we're planning on setting up a PIP package named tb-nightly so you might be able to use it sooner.